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Dr. Jason F. Providakes Director, Senior Vice President, and General Manager Center for Enterprise Modernization Director Homeland Security Center In addition to leading CEM, Dr. Providakes is director of MITRE's Homeland Security Center (HLSC), which works to ensure comprehensive, integrated, and strategic support to MITRE's homeland security customers. Prior to joining CEM and leading the HLSC, Dr. Providakes was executive director for the Joint and Defense-Wide Systems Division of MITRE's Command and Control Center. He managed a diverse work program involving strategic and theater systems with enterprise-wide implications across the Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Providakes focused on supporting the DoD's CIO (OSD/NII-CIO) to ensure an enterprise systems engineering approach was being applied across DoD programs. Dr. Providakes' previous roles at MITRE included chief engineer for the former Washington Command, Control, and Communications Center with responsibility for the Center's independent technology program. In addition, he was executive director for MITRE's Army Systems & Technology Division with a work program spanning multiple locations and consisting of strategic and theater systems. Dr. Providakes was a key architect for the Army's transformation—"digitizing the battlefield." Since joining MITRE in 1989 as a lead scientist Dr. Providakes has filled numerous leadership roles for a range of military service and civilian government agency customers. He is a member of the Army Science Board and has led and participated in several National Academy of Science studies. For the past several years, Dr. Providakes has focused on the area of information systems as part of MITRE's larger mission of delivering enterprise systems engineering solutions. Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Providakes completed graduate work in the electrical engineering department at Cornell University, where he obtained a doctorate in 1985. From 1985 through 1989, he taught and performed research in the area of radar backscatter to study the earth's ionosphere and published extensively. He holds master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic University.
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Dr. Jason F. Providakes is director, senior vice president, and general manager of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)/Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)—the Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM). With a strong enterprise perspective and broad experience across MITRE, Dr. Providakes' focus is on evolving and maturing CEM's work program and increasing MITRE's collective impact on critical challenges facing the IRS, VA, and other civilian government agencies.